On Sun, 06 Jan 2002 21:31:01 EST, David Z Maze writes: >Klaas Gadeyne <Klaas.Gadeyne@mech.kuleuven.ac.be> writes: <wipe preinstalled OS> >> - Trouble for performing BIOS upgrades (anyone can tell me what BIOS >> these machines have anyway?) > >I believe they have a custom Dell BIOS, which is shared between the >Inspiron and Latitude lines. Recent 2.4.x kernels include a driver to >access the fan and temperature state in the BIOS; the i8kutils package >in unstable might be useful to you. The BIOS-upgrade for one of our Inspiron's came on a bootable CD... For every other upgrade I've seen it was a DOS-executable, so with a DOS-bootdisk at hand you would be fine. cheers, &rw -- / Ing. Robert Waldner | Security Engineer | CoreTec IT-Security \ \ <rw@coretec.at> | T +43 1 503 72 73 | F +43 1 503 72 73 x99 /
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